Now I see why people buy Crossover Office. I can't figure out getting Wine to work.

I'm trying to run "Power Tab Editor" a Windows music program. I'm trying to follow directions at http://www.frankscorner.org, but even the first step after instaling it doesn't work. (I do see it on the pseudo C drive directory, installation seems to work fine.)

It says to first change to the program's directory, but I can't even do that. Frank's gives this example.

Well, your program may work may not, kind of a crap shoot. But, the way I get my game to work is like this (apply to your situation):
Install wine, then run winecfg and check settings that hopefully will work for you. Mine are 'windoze XP', 'oss' sound drivers, and under the drives tab I hit autoconfigure and all is good.
Then, to install your program change to dir it's in (home or desktop or...) and run wine setup.exe or the name of the downloaded file.
After it's installed (it might even make a shortcut on your desktop) to switch to the dir and run it you can do this: wine "c:/program files/steam/steam.exe" or whatever your program name is. Note the brackets around the windoze program directory. Good luck, it needs a bit of fiddlin, so just takes some Riddlin and be patient. It's pretty cool when your program does work.

Slightly off topic but Program files is a pain in the ass in e.g. the localized swedish version of Windows as the folder is called just Program. If the user installs something into Program files that autostarts the folder Program opens up on the desktop at boot. So if you'r windoze had been localized in this way you'd known

Last edited by Husse on Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The thing is with wine is that your expecting it to install to a place like Utilities in Mint,but you actually have to dig for it after you install it.Most people are not aware that you just have to right click a windows executable and it will start.Their is no cute like wine glass icon you can click on off the bat,something that would be nice in distros in the future since Windows support off the bat is important if you are going to get the main people to crossover to Linux